pc clock keeps readjusting to a faster time?

[sweeper2]

My pc clock keeps jumping forward about 15 minutes about once a day...have to keep going back and resyncronizing it with the internet time...??? Why is it doing this and does overclocking cpu have anything to do with it?? My pc usually stays on all the time but the monitor shuts off in about 10 minutes and the system goes into standby in about an hour...does that have anything to do with it??

[Dj-Icer]

Please go to Control Panel -> Power Management. From there, you can adjust minits/hours for your hard disk or monitor should be shutting off. Or might as well, just put to 'none'.

It seems to me that ur pc clock turn up like 'stupid', right? Could it be your CMOS battery. Because it monitors pc clocks too and BIOS passwords, if there is any. So, you would want to replace the CMOS battery.

[sweeper2]

thinking could be battery also...thats the motherboard battery right?...never had this problem before...i can adjust from control panel, but also just let the internet adjust it to correct time and it goes back to correct time..then the next day its running 15 minutes faster again....weird....right now it's showing 9:05 and i just had it set 1 hour ago with my digital cable clock!!!! it's showing 8:58!!!!

[JacobM5727]

yeah the cmos battery is on the motherboard, the lil silver one

[Siliconjunkie]

I would check for spyware. There seem to be many that set your clock, "Precision Time" comes to mind.

Also, if it is XP it may be doing it on its own. Use net time to set it to tick.usno.navy.mil or tock.usno.navy.mil

net time /setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil

The syntax of this command is:


NET TIME
[\\computername | /DOMAIN[:domainname] | /RTSDOMAIN[:domainname]] [/SET]
         [\\computername] /QUERYSNTP
         [\\computername] /SETSNTP[:ntp server list]

[ragtop]

Its actually pretty unlikely that your problem is caused by a bad CMOS battery. Normally, your first sign of a low battery is when all your BIOS settings reset to default (including the clock). Then you get a "CMOS checksum error" when you reboot the system.

Does the clock go out of adjustment gradually, or does it jump 15 minutes all at one time??

If it goes out of adjustment gradually, my guess would be that there's a hardware problem with the chip that controls the clock.

If it jumps suddenly, there might be some type of software issue or perhaps a virus or spyware that's causing it.

One other thing to try is resetting the time from the CMOS setup screen instead of from Windows & see if that helps.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Not a lot to find on this that is of any use.

The system clock is losing time or not keeping time accurately

Bill